go-wsl2-host
Automatically update your Windows hosts file with the WSL2 VM IP address (by shayne)
nCryptAgent
An SSH agent for hardware backed keys on Windows (by unreality)
| go-wsl2-host | nCryptAgent | |
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| 3 | 2 | |
| 1,633 | 40 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 3.3 | |
| 6 months ago | 3 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| - | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
go-wsl2-host
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-wsl2-host.
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Fixed IP for WSL instances
But that's still tedious, and someone worked on that problem. Here comes WSL2Host.
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Trying to connect from host to WSL2 using WSL2's hostname
You can add that entry to your windows host file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts), but it will change when WSL restarts. There are utilities that automate this addition at boot time.
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How Good is the Development Experience in Windows with WSL2 in 2021?
I've had some issues with getting addresses resolving correctly but this tool https://github.com/shayne/go-wsl2-host works pretty good (you just type in lists of hosts and service refreshes etc file whenever WSL2 IP changes (and it changes with every reboot).
nCryptAgent
Posts with mentions or reviews of nCryptAgent.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-wsl2-host and nCryptAgent you can also consider the following projects:
wsldl - Advanced WSL launcher / installer. (Win10 FCU x64/arm64 or later.)
WinCryptSSHAgent - Using a Yubikey for SSH Authentication on Windows Seamlessly
winssh-pageant - Bridge to Windows OpenSSH agent from Pageant. This means the openssh agent has the keys and this proxies pageant requests to it.